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300 Area D4 Project Fiscal Year 2010 Building Completion Report (open access)

300 Area D4 Project Fiscal Year 2010 Building Completion Report

This report summarizes the deactiviation, decontamination, decommissioning, and demolition activities of facilities in the 300 Area of the Hanford Site in fiscal year 2010.
Date: January 27, 2011
Creator: Skwarek, B. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
401(k) Plans and Retirement Savings: Issues for Congress (open access)

401(k) Plans and Retirement Savings: Issues for Congress

From Summary: "This report describes seven major policy issues with respect to defined contribution plans include: 1. access to employer-sponsored retirement plans; 2. participation in employer-sponsored plans; 3. contribution rates; 4. investment choices; 5. fee disclosure; 6. leakage from retirement savings; converting retirement savings into income."
Date: January 7, 2011
Creator: Topoleski, John J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
401(K) Plans: Certain Investment Options and Practices That May Restrict Withdrawals Not Widely Understood (open access)

401(K) Plans: Certain Investment Options and Practices That May Restrict Withdrawals Not Widely Understood

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "401(k) plan sponsors are responsible for offering an array of appropriate investment options, and participants are responsible for directing their investments among those options. While participants expect to be able to switch investment options or withdraw money from their accounts, during the recent economic downturn, some 401(k) plan sponsors and participants found that they were restricted from doing so. GAO was asked to (1) identify some of the specific investments and practices that prevented plan sponsors and participants from accessing their 401(k) plan assets and (2) determine any changes the Department of Labor (Labor) could make to assist sponsors in understanding the challenges posed by the investments and practices that restricted withdrawals. To do this, GAO reviewed relevant federal laws and regulations and consulted with experts, federal officials, service providers, and plan sponsors."
Date: March 10, 2011
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
401(K) Plans: Improved Regulation Could Better Protect Participants from Conflicts of Interest (open access)

401(K) Plans: Improved Regulation Could Better Protect Participants from Conflicts of Interest

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Recent volatility in financial markets highlights the need for prudent investment decisions if 401(k) plans are to provide an adequate source of retirement income. While plan sponsors and participants may receive help in assessing their investment choices, concerns have been raised about the impartiality of the advice provided. GAO was asked to describe circumstances where service providers may have conflicts of interest in providing assistance related to the selection of investment options for (1) plan sponsors and (2) plan participants, and (3) steps the Department of Labor (Labor) has taken to address conflicts of interest related to the selection of investment options."
Date: January 28, 2011
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
401(k) Plans: Issues Involving Securities Lending in Plan Investments (open access)

401(k) Plans: Issues Involving Securities Lending in Plan Investments

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Securities lending can be a relatively straightforward way for plan sponsors and participants to increase their return on 401(k) investments. However, securities lending can also present a number of challenges to plan participants and plan sponsors. GAO was asked to explain how securities lending with cash collateral reinvestment works in relation to 401(k) plan investments, who bears the risks, and what are some of the challenges plan participants and plan sponsors face in understanding securities lending with cash collateral reinvestment. In this testimony, GAO discusses its recent work regarding securities lending with cash collateral reinvestment. GAO is making no new recommendations in this statement but continues to believe that the Department of Labor (Labor) can take action to help plan sponsors of 401(k) plans and plan participants to understand the role, risk, and benefits of securities lending with cash collateral reinvestment in relation to 401(k) plan investments. Specifically, GAO recommended that Labor provide more guidance to plan sponsors about fees and returns when plan assets are utilized in securities lending with cash collateral reinvestment, amend its participant disclosure regulation to include provisions specific to securities lending with cash …
Date: March 16, 2011
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
T-1018 UCLA Spacordion Tungsten Powder Calorimeter (open access)

T-1018 UCLA Spacordion Tungsten Powder Calorimeter

The present experiments at the BNL-RHIC facility are evolving towards physics goals which require the detection of medium energy electromagnetic particles (photons, electrons, neutral pions, eta mesons, etc.), especially at forward angles. New detectors will place increasing demands on energy resolution, hadron rejection and two-photon resolution and will require large area, high performance electromagnetic calorimeters in a variety of geometries. In the immediate future, either RHIC or JLAB will propose a facility upgrade (Electron-Ion Collider, or EIC) with physics goals such as electron-heavy ion collisions (or p-A collisions) with a wide range of calorimeter requirements. An R and D program based at Brookhaven National Laboratory has awarded the group funding of approximately $110,000 to develop new types of calorimeters for EIC experiments. The UCLA group is developing a method to manufacture very flexible and cost-effective, yet high quality calorimeters based on scintillating fibers and tungsten powder. The design and features of the calorimeter can be briefly stated as follows: an arbitrarily large number of small diameter fibers (< 0.5 mm) are assembled as a matrix and held rigidly in place by a set of precision screens inside an empty container. The container is then back-filled with tungsten powder, compacted on …
Date: November 16, 2011
Creator: Trentalange, Stephen; Tsai, Oleg; Igo, George; Huang, Huan; Pan, Yu Xi; Dunkelberger, Jay et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
T-1020 NaI crystal test for DM-Ice (open access)

T-1020 NaI crystal test for DM-Ice

This is a memorandum of understanding between the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) and the experiments of the NaI Crystal Test for DM-Ice from the University of Wisconsin who have committed to participate in detector tests to be carried out during the 2011-2012 Fermilab Neutrino program. The memorandum is intended primarily for the purpose of recording expectations for budget estimates and work allocations for Fermilab, the funding agencies and the participating institutions. It reflects an arrangement that currently is satisfactory to the parties; however, it is recognized and anticipated that changing circumstances of the evolving research program will necessitate revisions. The parties agree to modify this memorandum to reflect such required adjustments. Actual contractual obligations will be set forth in separate documents. The DM-Ice collaboration is designing a sodium-iodide (NaI) based detector for a direct dark matter search. The detectors should have low readout noise and background levels to carry out a sensitive search. A 17-kg version of the experiment is running at the South Pole, 2500 m deep in the Antarctic ice, and a large scale experiment is currently being designed. One of the keys to the success of the experiment is to have a good understanding of the …
Date: November 3, 2011
Creator: Maruyama, Reina; Heeger, Karsten; Pierpoint, Zachary; Pettus, Walter; Broerman, Benjamin; Hilgenberg, Chris et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
1099 Information Reporting Requirements and Penalties as Modified by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 (open access)

1099 Information Reporting Requirements and Penalties as Modified by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010

This report discuses the 2010 expansion of reporting requirements listed in IRC (Internal Revenue Code) 6041. The controversy in these expansions lies in the burden the expansion imposes on small businesses. The report also describes the pieces of legislation that have amended IRC 6041, and the implications of that legislation along with the consequences of IRC 6041.
Date: February 25, 2011
Creator: Pettit, Carol A. & Liu, Edward C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
1099 Information Reporting Requirements and Penalties as Modified by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 (open access)

1099 Information Reporting Requirements and Penalties as Modified by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010

This report discuses the 2010 expansion of reporting requirements listed in IRC (Internal Revenue Code) 6041. The controversy in these expansions lies in the burden the expansion imposes on small businesses. The report also describes the pieces of legislation that have amended IRC 6041, and the implications of that legislation along with the consequences of IRC 6041.
Date: March 4, 2011
Creator: Pettit, Carol A. & Liu, Edward C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
10MW Class Direct Drive HTS Wind Turbine: Cooperative Research and Development Final Report, CRADA Number CRD-08-00312 (open access)

10MW Class Direct Drive HTS Wind Turbine: Cooperative Research and Development Final Report, CRADA Number CRD-08-00312

This paper summarizes the work completed under the CRADA between NREL and American Superconductor (AMSC). The CRADA combined NREL and AMSC resources to benchmark high temperature superconducting direct drive (HTSDD) generator technology by integrating the technologies into a conceptual wind turbine design, and comparing the design to geared drive and permanent magnet direct drive (PMDD) wind turbine configurations. Analysis was accomplished by upgrading the NREL Wind Turbine Design Cost and Scaling Model to represent geared and PMDD turbines at machine ratings up to 10 MW and then comparing cost and mass figures of AMSC's HTSDD wind turbine designs to theoretical geared and PMDD turbine designs at 3.1, 6, and 10 MW sizes.
Date: May 1, 2011
Creator: Musial, W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
["14th Amendment: Race Immigration and Transformation in the 21st Century" tape 1] captions transcript

["14th Amendment: Race Immigration and Transformation in the 21st Century" tape 1]

Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the Roundtable Writer's Breakfast on the 14th amendment, race, immigration, and transformation in the 21st century led by Curtis King on January 8th, 2011. The footage shows tables set up with food being served to members of the community from across DFW in education, pastoral, public service, and civic backgrounds. This tape focuses on the featured speaker from SMU setting up the context of the conversation in relation to the political power directed by different presidential administrations.
Date: January 8, 2011
Creator: King, Curtis
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
["14th Amendment: Race Immigration and Transformation in the 21st Century" tape 2] captions transcript

["14th Amendment: Race Immigration and Transformation in the 21st Century" tape 2]

Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the Roundtable Writer's Breakfast on the 14th amendment, race, immigration, and transformation in the 21st century led by Curtis King on January 8th, 2011. The footage shows tables set up with food being served to members of the community from across DFW in education, pastoral, public service, and civic backgrounds. This tape focuses on the economics of immigration and the phrase "immigration is the new slavery".
Date: January 8, 2011
Creator: King, Curtis
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
16S rRNA gene microarray analysis of microbial communities in ethanol-stimulated subsurface sediment (open access)

16S rRNA gene microarray analysis of microbial communities in ethanol-stimulated subsurface sediment

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Date: March 15, 2011
Creator: Mohanty, S. R.; Kollah, B.; Brodie, E. L.; Hazen, T. C. & Roden, E. E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
1994 SSRL Activity Report (open access)

1994 SSRL Activity Report

SSRL, a division of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is a national user facility which provides synchrotron radiation, a name given to x-rays or light produced by electrons circulating in a storage ring at nearly the speed of light. The synchrotron radiation is produced by the 3.3 GeV storage ring, SPEAR. SPEAR is a fully dedicated synchrotron radiation facility which has been operating for user experiments 6 to 7 months per year. 1994, the third year of operation of SSRL as a fully dedicated, low-emittance, independent user facility was superb. The facility ran extremely well, delivering 89% of the scheduled user beam to 25 experimental stations during 6.5 months of user running. Over 600 users came from 167 institutions to participate in 343 experiments. Users from private industry were involved in 31% of these experiments. The SPEAR accelerator ran very well with no major component failures and an unscheduled down time of only 2.9%. In addition to this increased reliability, there was a significant improvement in the stability of the beam. The enhancements to the SPEAR orbit as part of a concerted three-year program were particularly noticeable to users. the standard deviation of beam movement (both planes) in the last …
Date: November 18, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[19th annual Christmas & Kwanzaa concert, tape 1 of 3] captions transcript

[19th annual Christmas & Kwanzaa concert, tape 1 of 3]

Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their 19th annual Christmas and Kwanzaa holiday concert in collaboration with local school choirs held on December 10th, 2011. The footage shows a large band seated in front of a mixed-gender student choir. The concert features students from 12 schools such as South Oak Cliff, Lincoln, Carter, and Kimball high schools with the Townview Big D Band.
Date: December 10, 2011
Creator: Ethley, Demetrius
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[19th annual Christmas & Kwanzaa concert, tape 2 of 3] captions transcript

[19th annual Christmas & Kwanzaa concert, tape 2 of 3]

Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their 19th annual Christmas and Kwanzaa holiday concert in collaboration with local school choirs held on December 10th, 2011. The footage shows a large band seated in front of a mixed-gender student choir. The concert features students from 12 schools such as South Oak Cliff, Lincoln, Carter, and Kimball high schools with the Townview Big D Band.
Date: December 10, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[19th annual Christmas & Kwanzaa concert, tape 3 of 3] captions transcript

[19th annual Christmas & Kwanzaa concert, tape 3 of 3]

Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their 19th annual Christmas and Kwanzaa holiday concert in collaboration with local school choirs held on December 10th, 2011. The tape shows the dismissal of the students at the conclusion of the concert.
Date: December 10, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
1st Advanced Marine Renewable Energy Instrumentation Experts Workshop: April 5-7, 2011 (open access)

1st Advanced Marine Renewable Energy Instrumentation Experts Workshop: April 5-7, 2011

The U.S. marine energy industry is actively pursuing development of offshore wind and marine hydrokinetic (MHK) energy systems. Experience in the wind energy sector demonstrates that new technology development requires thorough measurement and characterization of the environmental conditions prevalent at installation sites and of technology operating in the field. Presently, there are no turn-key instrumentation system solutions that meet the measurement needs of the marine energy industry. The 1st Advanced Marine Renewable Energy Instrumentation Experts Workshop brought together technical experts from government laboratories, academia, and industry representatives from marine energy, wind, offshore oil and gas, and instrumentation developers to present and discuss the instrumentation needs of the marine energy industry. The goals of the meeting were to: (1) Share the latest relevant knowledge among technical experts; (2) Review relevant state-of-the-art field measurement technologies and methods; (3) Review lessons learned from recent field deployments; (4) Identify synergies across different industries; (5) Identify gaps between existing and needed instrumentation capabilities; (6) Understand who are the leading experts; (7) Provide a forum where stakeholders from the marine energy industry could provide substantive input in the development of new marine energy field deployable instrumentation packages.
Date: October 1, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2007 Estimated International Energy Flows (open access)

2007 Estimated International Energy Flows

An energy flow chart or 'atlas' for 136 countries has been constructed from data maintained by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and estimates of energy use patterns for the year 2007. Approximately 490 exajoules (460 quadrillion BTU) of primary energy are used in aggregate by these countries each year. While the basic structure of the energy system is consistent from country to country, patterns of resource use and consumption vary. Energy can be visualized as it flows from resources (i.e. coal, petroleum, natural gas) through transformations such as electricity generation to end uses (i.e. residential, commercial, industrial, transportation). These flow patterns are visualized in this atlas of 136 country-level energy flow charts.
Date: March 10, 2011
Creator: Smith, C. A.; Belles, R. D. & Simon, A. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2010 Annual Health Physics Report for the HEU Transparency Program (open access)

2010 Annual Health Physics Report for the HEU Transparency Program

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Date: May 16, 2011
Creator: Radev, R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2010 Annual Industrial Wastewater Reuse Report for the Idaho National Laboratory Site’s Advanced Test Reactor Complex Cold Waste Pond (open access)

2010 Annual Industrial Wastewater Reuse Report for the Idaho National Laboratory Site’s Advanced Test Reactor Complex Cold Waste Pond

This report describes conditions, as required by the state of Idaho Industrial Wastewater Reuse Permit (#LA 000161 01, Modification B), for the wastewater land application site at the Idaho National Laboratory Site’s Advanced Test Reactor Complex Cold Waste Pond from November 1, 2009 through October 31, 2010. The report contains the following information: • Facility and system description • Permit required effluent monitoring data and loading rates • Groundwater monitoring data • Status of compliance activities • Discussion of the facility’s environmental impacts During the 2010 permit year, approximately 164 million gallons of wastewater were discharged to the Cold Waste Pond. As shown by the groundwater sampling data, sulfate and total dissolved solids concentrations are highest near the Cold Waste Pond and decrease rapidly as the distance from the Cold Waste Pond increases. Although concentrations of sulfate and total dissolved solids are elevated near the Cold Waste Pond, both parameters were below the Ground Water Quality Rule Secondary Constituent Standards in the down gradient monitoring wells.
Date: February 1, 2011
Creator: lewis, mike
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2010 Annual Industrial Wastewater Reuse Report for the Idaho National Laboratory Site's Materials and Fuels Complex Industrial Waste Ditch and Industrial Waste Pond (open access)

2010 Annual Industrial Wastewater Reuse Report for the Idaho National Laboratory Site's Materials and Fuels Complex Industrial Waste Ditch and Industrial Waste Pond

This report describes conditions, as required by the state of Idaho Industrial Wastewater Reuse Permit (#LA 000160 01), for the wastewater reuse site at the Idaho National Laboratory Site’s Materials and Fuels Complex Industrial Waste Ditch and Industrial Waste Pond from May 1, 2010 through October 31, 2010. The report contains the following information: • Facility and system description • Permit required effluent monitoring data and loading rates • Groundwater monitoring data • Status of special compliance conditions • Discussion of the facility’s environmental impacts During the 2010 partial reporting year, an estimated 3.646 million gallons of wastewater were discharged to the Industrial Waste Ditch and Pond which is well below the permit limit of 13 million gallons per year. The concentrations of all permit-required analytes in the samples from the down gradient monitoring wells were below the Ground Water Quality Rule Primary and Secondary Constituent Standards.
Date: February 1, 2011
Creator: Frederick, David B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2010 Annual Progress Report: DOE Hydrogen Program (open access)

2010 Annual Progress Report: DOE Hydrogen Program

In the past year, the DOE Hydrogen Program (the Program) made substantial progress toward its goals and objectives. The Program has conducted comprehensive and focused efforts to enable the widespread commercialization of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies in diverse sectors of the economy. With emphasis on applications that will effectively strengthen our nation's energy security and improve our stewardship of the environment, the Program engages in research, development, and demonstration of critical improvements in the technologies. Highlights of the Program's accomplishments can be found in the sub-program chapters of this report.
Date: February 1, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
2010 Annual Summary Report for the Area 3 and Area 5 Radioactive Management Sites at the Nevada National Security Site, Nye County, Nevada (open access)

2010 Annual Summary Report for the Area 3 and Area 5 Radioactive Management Sites at the Nevada National Security Site, Nye County, Nevada

The U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office performed an annual review of the Area 3 and Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Site (RWMS) Performance Assessments (PAs) and Composite Analyses (CAs) in fiscal year (FY) 2010. This annual summary report presents data and conclusions from the FY 2010 review, and determines the adequacy of the PAs and CAs. Operational factors (e.g., waste forms and containers, facility design, and waste receipts), closure plans, monitoring results, and research and development (R&D) activities were reviewed to determine the adequacy of the PAs. Likewise, the environmental restoration activities at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) (formerly the Nevada Test Site) relevant to the sources of residual radioactive material that are considered in the CAs, the land-use planning, and the results of the environmental monitoring and R&D activities were reviewed to determine the adequacy of the CAs.
Date: March 1, 2011
Creator: National Security Technologies, LLC
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library